Chapter 9: Scene 32: You're ready for a staffing now: Passage 142

ThinkLink: Did you ever want something very badly, but people kept telling you you’d have to wait a little longer?

A guard sitting at a desk looks over at me once in a while. I sit there jiggling my foot. Hurry up and wait: That's Fire Oak. Maybe he'll tell me I'm going home. Maybe he heard from the new lawyer.

McGill finally opens the door and sticks his head out into the hall. "Good to see you, John. How have things been going?" He waves his hand toward the office. Inside, he sits down and stretches his legs almost out the door. He lets me sit some more while he goes through a stack of papers. I shout at him in my head. Tell me, damn it!